The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
